Been traveling from yesterday Shru, please bear with me for the delayed comment. 😭
In brief, I liked the update and how conniving, guileful and machiavellian Ragini is. Lakshya seems set to be as fickle as ever, I fully expect him to change his mind once again, and shift his choice of bride from Swara back to Ragini! And I don't mind that one bit, he doesn't deserve Swara anyway, and our Golden couple need to get together, na?
Sanskaar has started feeling joyous and blissful having Swara keep him company, though it was part of the ploy he hatched with Ragini initially. How long before he admits to himself what he is feeling?
I am quite intrigued by your mention of the messenger sent to deliver him some information in secret, and how the person who'd sent him had perforce to send a relative greenhorn, since all his better men were involved in the other mission Sanskaar had entrusted him with. Wonder what these missions are? Sanskaar being perfectly lucid and sane, seems to be known to a core group of his loyalists. An army action against an external/ internal threat in the offing?
I liked your concluding sentence describing our Golden pair...The Knave who was once the Finest Knight (still is, as far as I am concerned. 😳), and the Pawn destined to be a Queen. 👏
BTW, are you going to be able to finish this within the 7 chapters you'd earmarked? Its already 5, and there seems to be quite a bit of ground left to cover, right?